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Saturday, August 11, 1917.
were injured or otherwise incapcitat
ed, we find that between 2 and 3 per
cent., of these ' lads achieved some
high distinction a truly marvelous
result, unexcelled, if not unparallel
ed, by the record of any other regi
ment engaged in this war.
Now let us set beside these facts
and figures the current statistics
which would seem to prove that there
has been a great increasae in juve
nile crime lately. Does it mean that
there is a new spirit of lawlessness
abroad which has so infected the
younger generation that they are
more wicked than they used to be?
I think not. I think that if we call
this new spirit a spirit of adventure
rather than a spirit of lawlessness we
shall get nearer the truth. 1 think
that it is more often this higher spirit
born of misguided courage and mis
taken enterprise. Literary Digest.
From the Prisons to the Army and
Navy.
The increase of Juvenile crime, or
what appears to be a tendency there
to in warring countries, has in some
instances offset in the improvement
of adult misdoers. This is noticed
in England, where inmates of prisons
have been drafted into the Army with
surprising results. The idea of util
izing these restrained citizens for ser
vice at the front encountered objec
tion when it was first broached, says
Mr. Edwin Pugh, the well known Eng
lish novelist, writing in the London
Daily Mail. Against the argument
that allowing them to fight for their
king and country would be given
them a chance to redeem their past
and regain their self-respect, it was
urged that soldiers of the new Army
would "most strongly and quite rea
sonably object to having consort with
criminals." So the idea was apparent
lv droTmed- Rut a little while a?o
it was officially announced that over j curJen5y"f, 1 - , u ,
The Real Remedy
The Treasury Department is said
to be feeling some disquietude over
the continued large shipments of gold
from this country to Japan ; and steps
have been taken to discourage the
movement. These steps consist in
instructing the sub-treasury at San
Francisco not to redeem gold certifi
cates, upon the ground that they are
legally redeemable only at Washing
ton. This means that shipments of
gold from Pacific ports to Japan must
be subject to the additional charge
for transportation from Washington
to the Coast and puts gold at a prem
ium everywhere except at Washingr
ton; and is indicative of an inflated
7,000 out of 15,000 convicts and oth
ed minor misdemeanants had been
permitted to volunteer for active ser
vice, and that the vast majority of
them had macTe good. The authori
ties felt justified in enlisting mature
convicts from experience with youths
taken from reformatories and indus
trial schools, of whom some four
thousand . were first enrolled in the
Army and Navy. A careful record
of these so-called ne'er do wells pre
sents both dark and a bright side: ,
To take the darker side first: 530
were killed in action, 49 died of
wounds, 13 die dof sickness, and
1,530 were more or less seriously
wounded. From this it will be seen
that more than half of them gave their
lives or suffered some grievous hurt in
their country's cause.
Now to take the brighter side of
record: 20 were mentioned in dis
patches, 25 received the D. C. M., 8
were given commissions, and 3 re
ceived the V. C.
I Deducting from this list those who
the flow of American gold to Japan.
It is sent there in settlement of a
trade balance which is increasingly
to our detriment because of the con
stantly enlarging amount of our pur
chases from Japanese manufacturers
an producers. The real remedy for
the loss of gold to Japan is to raise a
Tariff on articles which Japan is sel
ling to us and which find a readier
entrance to our market since the
Democratic reduction in the produc
tion which Republican Tariff, laws
gave to American industries. Au
gusta (Me.) Journal.
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small home, fine well, new windmill,
Northeast Chestnut Street. $2500.
Inquire at Free Press office.
yfsOME THINGS .... &
and OTHER THINGS h
Fight the good fight of faith, lav
hold on eternal life. I Tim. 6:12. '
This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith. I John 5 :4.
You will never make the present
certain "by studying the uncertainties
of the past. You must rest assured,
you must take the risk of life' or take
the count of life.
I was passing a place of work the
other day and the contractor was
wanting helpers, ordinary helpers.
There were at least twenty-five men
standing around, some of them need
ing a job, but none of them wanted
ta be classed as "ordinary." The
reason so many are so ordinary, is
because they are not able to do any
thing else but very ordinary jobs. I
am pursuaded that men are to blame
for their failures. Weakness can on
ly stay where it is continually being
recognized.
When you find a man who is not
willing to acknowledge caDacitv in
his competitors, you are safe in us
ing this rule to jneasure such a man
by. "Those who are lacking in abil
ity are always unwilling to recognize
it in others."
If you are so weak and thin skin
ned, that you can be stopped by the
irony and ridicule of others, you
would better hang up your harp of
ambition on the traditional williow
limb and take your place among the
mignt have beens."
I hear men saying "what will the
children do if we go?" Men do you
know the greatest inheritance vou
can leave your children will be that
father fought on European battle
fields that world liberty, and oppor
tunity might come to all men every
where. Men who enter this great
war game are the universal Spartans.
lhey fear and hate nothing but cow
ardice. They hear no siren voices, and
plead for no soft chances, but demand
and will have nothiner but universal
'liberty and opportunity to present
to the coming generations as their
bit to civilization.
Those men who return from the
gory . battle fields Vimy Ridge,
Somme, Marne, and other still to be
made historic my! my! what a fra
ternity they will make; what a new
Lrrand Army of the Republic they will
organize; how the gray haired, wrinkle-faced
soldiers of the remaining
old Grand Army of the ReDublic will
welcome into their rapidly depleting
order the new Grand Army of the
Republic. That fraternity can only
be entered by an "honorable dis
charge" from duties done on the al
tar of the nation. There will be no
sect, no autocracy, no cast, only love,
brain, brawn and duties done count.
All honor to men who are not slack-
Kansas Council of Defense
Topeka, Kfr. August fith. Seed
for next season's vegetable garde. i
will be high in prie and the suj ply
of some of the best varieties may
not he equal to the demand, believes
the Kansas Council of Defense.
The sale of vegetable seed this year
has greatly exceeded that of any pre
vious year, and indications are that
the large area now devoted to garden
ing will be extended next spring. In
view of this situation, it is thought
that it will be to the advantage of
many gardeners to save seed from
their own crop.
Among the garden crops from
which seed may be easily and profit
ably saved are sweet corn, beans,
peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons,
and spinachs. In selecting seed only
that from the strongest and best de
veloped, plants true to the varietv
type, should be taken. The saving of
seed in large quantities is a special
ized business, but on a small scale in
volves litlte expense.
The turnip, because of its hardi
ness, high food value, and excellent
storing qualities, is a general favor
ite among garden vegetables for late
summer planting, points out the
state council of defense.
The variety of ways in which tur
nips may be prepared for the table is
almost unlimited.
Tradition has it, sow turnips the
twenty-fifth of July, wet or dry, but
in most of Kansas this vegetable
should give a good account of itself
if sown a week or two after that date.
Sowing on very mellow ground gives
the best results. Vacant spaces in
the garden where earlier crops have
matured can be put into condition
with small effort.
Turnips are one of the. most satis
factory vegetables to store for winter
use.
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doesn't it?
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We are now passing into the world
war. ' Thousands of our boys will die
while trying to cut their way through
Germany's militarism to cut their
way through wire, trench and cannon.
They will yield their lives rather than
yield to irresolution. Few of their
names will be heralded to the world,
few of their graves will be marked
with anything more than the standard
regulation marker, but, the glory of
their courage will never die, and all
of the coming tomorrows will receive
inspirations by what they did there.
The following are the letters of the
alphabet of success: "Invention, sci
ence, arts, letters, commerce, and
common sense.". If you know these,
any two or three of them, you can
spell your own word to name youx
success. You must make your "own
combination. They are behind you,
but if you slack in using them you
are a slacker. If you stand still, stand
on your dignity rights, you do not
stand a ghost of a chance.
I am quite sure there is a certain
coterie of men in all walks of life
who try to bar all applicants for posi
tion in. ineir certain lines 01 voca
tion, but the world is on the hunt for
faster shrewder men for men who
can do more, conserve more energy,
reduce the cost of output, and no
little clique, clan or selfish organiza
tion can long withstand such men.
lhe only way to keep them out is to
stay their masters. In any field of
endeavor there are still new heights
yet unattained just 'be able to add
a new rung or two above your com
petitor and up you go.
Some men have not learned that
as long as they satisfy we will keep
tnem, Dut as soon as we nnd their su
perior they will be relived of nlace.
You may not have thought of it, but
if you will listen you will hear some
men who have been let out, saying:
ium, out wtause 01 lavormsm,
political pull, stand in" and all the
other phrases found in the shirker's
vocabularly will be used to justify
their situation; when the real reason
was they failed to satisfy. Remem-
Der that is the reason the erov
eminent is relieving men of imoort
ant positions, "failed to satisfv." The
sunace reason may be health, busi
ness, or a dozen other stated excuses
but the real reasdn not wanted,
could not satisfy, could not meet the
requirements
From Fort Rilev
Junction City, Kans., Aug. 3, 1917
Dear Red:
We got to work. Making $7:15
per day. Get $10.20 for working
ounaays, only work eight hours on
ounaay, ten hours on the rest ex
cept baturdav we work onlv fiv?
hours; takes the rest of, the afternoon
to pay olf the 3.000 men workrrnr
It only takes $75,000 per week to pay
me men on. Are building 600, two
story buildings, 40x140; 2,800 one
story, 20x140; got about 300 done,
won't be finished until next' May.
They accommodate 75,000 soldiers
then. There are about 12,000 sol
diers here now. The soldiers sure
have made this some town. BlaVi
Pratt and Kostner xe working at the
Fort. Hess didn't stay; he went to
lopeKa. The kids are Erettin.$4.12
per day, and they get $8.30 on Sun
day, $32.00 ter week. Costs aW
$7.50 for board and room and car
tare. George, Leo, Mike, Blackie,
Prattie and Kostner and myself went
swimming tonight, costs fifteen cents,
Have a city swimmin? nool snr
fine. Was over to Manhattan, Tues-
aay ana seen Miss Hutto only twen
ty miles from here.
Your friend.
John Miller.
The income of the Kansas farmer
for the coming year will be limited
only by the amount of wheat he can
produce. This is the statement of Dr.
Henry Jackson Waters, president of
the Kansas Council of" Defense.
"Usually when the yield has been
high the price has gone down," conr
mented Doctor Waters, "but with a
fixed minimum price that will not be
the case. The state ought to repeat
the crop of 1914 20 bushels an acre
on 10,000,000 acres. It ought to
raise the first 200,000,000 bushel
wheat crop in history, and ought to
get $2.50 a bushel for it. French,
English and Eastern United States
money will come pouring into the
state."
Doctor Waters, who recently re
turned from Washington and other
eastern cities, states that people
there are much interested in Kansas'
plan to plant 10,000,000 acres to
wheat the largest acreage in the
country though they feel that it is
no more than the state's quota.
The government is interested, says
Doctor Waters, since there is a great
shortage of fertilizer, labor and ma
chinery, in not disturbing normal,
successful practices. Deviations from
the normal are likely to call for new
machinery and large amounts of fer
tilizer for crops that can be grown
elsewhere without fertilizer.
Disturbance of the labor situation
would also be certain.
"If the yield of wheat in the state
of New York, were to be doubled, as
some have advocated, said Doctor
Waters, "a great amount of seedinsr
and harvesting machinery would have
to be purchased, thus robbing the
great wheat regions of their- supply.
Moreover, a great quantity of ferti
lizers would be necessary and this
would cut down the supply to the
truck crops of New Jersey and the
cotton of the south. On the other
hand, wheat can be grown in Kansas
without fertiilizer, without additional
machinery and because of the great
open fields and level country of the
state with less man power."
The labor shortage bound to exist
in the country will first manifest it
self acutely, Doctor Waters, believes,
m the corn harvest, which, barring
bad weather conditions, should be ex
ceedingly heavy
Manhattan, Kans. Aug." G. It is
best to leave potatoes in the ground
as long as possible after the vines
have matured, provided the weather
remains dry and hot, according to M.
F. Agearn, associate professor of
horticulture in the Kansas State Ag
ricultural college. . x
If this method is followed the
weeds should be permitted to grow
ior tr.e purpose or shading the ground
and preventing sunburn and also to
take up the moisture in case of rain
m August. Rams followed by hot
days and nights will cause the pota
tdes to start a second growth or to
rot. Potatoes left in the ground till
late fall should be hilled if the weeds
are not prssent in sufficient quanti
ties to shade the ground.
ihere are many ways of storing do-
tatoes in the winter. A small acre
age may be stored in pits, dugouts
and cellars. The tubers kept best at
a temperature of from 34 to 36 de
grees. A higher temperature when
the potatpes are first stored witl not
hurt them. When stored in 'the cpI-
lar the potatoes should be placed in
bins to the depth of about one foot,
or better in boxes raised a few inch
es from the floor.
Parsnips, carrots, turnips and beets
will kep fresh, and wholtfand will not
shrivel up if they are stored in. boxes
filled with sand. They should not be
packed too close together, but some
of the sand should be allowed to get
in around the roots.
Celery may be stored in the same
manner. The plants just as they are
pulled from the ground should be
placed in the boxes. The plants
should be stood up, and sand should
be packed in around them.
thin film over a corrugated metal
surface cooled, by water which circu
lates through on the inside. "
Not only does this cool the inilk
but some of the bad flavor of fresh
milk may be eliminated by exposure
to pure air. The temperature of the
milk will depend upon the coolness of
the water used. If the milk is to be
sold it should be kept cool by allow
ing the cans to stand in a" tank of
cold water.
If only cream is sold from the farm
the milk should be separated imme
diately after milking and the cream
cooled at once. The keeping quality
of the butter made from this cream
will depend upon the way the cream
is handled at the farm. Creamery men
are coming to realize that in order
to produce a good quality of butter
they must have good cream to start
with and in many places they are pay
ing a permjum to the farmers who
delfver the cream of good quality.
Cream must be cooled immediately
after being esparated, and any other
cream that is separated later should
be cooled before being added to the
first cream. The cream, 4f delivered
three tinies a week during the summer
should reach the creamery in first
class condition and should make but
ter of good quality.
The cheapest and most simple ar
rangement for keeping cream and milk
cool on the farm is made by allow
ing water that flows to stock tanks, to
pass through a sheltered tank in
which the milk and cream plans are
placed.
Jewell county will hold local agri
cultural fairs and a county festival
this fall. The subject has been giv
en much thought by members of the
county farm bureau and A. E. Jones,
agricultural agent. Many of the peo
ple of the county consider the hold
ing of these community fairs and the j
county festival a patriotic duty be-
cause of their value in stmiulating j
increased agriculturla production.
wnen Autnors write Best. j
The time when an author may do j
his best work is a much-disputed ques
tion and an interesting one. It de
pends, of course, largely upon the
moods and temperament of the indi'
vidual, but perhaps more largely still
upon his habits. The common Ielief
of many authors, however, has" been
that their best work is done at night.
At Your Service
. We have been for the last five years and we expect to
be for a good many more.
If you are going; to bulid or remodel you will be in
need of the following:
Plumbing, heating or tin work call in and we will be
pleased to serve you, or phone 338, and we will call.
A. J. PISCHKE
HAYS,
KANSAS
Every Time You Eat
YOU realize the importance of the quality of your
GROCERIES. That is our specialty "QUALITY"
It costs us a little more, and we have to meet the same
prices of other dealers, but we find from, experience that
it pays in the long run, because we never lose our custo-
Its Quality that does it.
mers.
HAYS.
J. B. BASGALL
KANSAS
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Gold Medal Shingles are Best.
Citizens Lumber c Supply Co.
G. W. Miller has seed wheat to tmt
out to actual farmers for one-fifth of
iyto crop. Delivered free in Hays.
Cold Medl SHinelea are Best.
Citizens Lnmbr Sc Supply Co.
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FRED N. DRDLING
P. A. BASGALL, Manager
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Abstracting, Loans,
Real Estate N
Having purchased the George L. Ziegler Abstract books we wish
to announce that we are prepared to do your abstracting for you.
We also represent one of the largest and most substantial loan com
panies in the state and can give you the very best terms in getting
the farm loan you are going to need this year, and, if you are in the
market for land we have some fine bargains in that line.
Give us a chance to figure with you.
Ellis County Abstract &
Loan Company.
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. M. I. STRAUSS
The well known Eye Specialist and
optometrist will stay for a short while
in the county. Better' see him about
your eyes or your children's eyes
before it is too late.
Over five hundred patients in the
county who he can refer to all the
work the best. If you wish to consult
drop a postal o Hays.
MEATS AND GROCERIES
We are prepared to take care of your orders
for MEATS, GROCERIES' FRESH FRUITS
and VEGETABLES.
T. G. REED & SONS, Hays, Kansas
Phone 169
Cloud County has a new club com
bination. It is known as the Ames
Poultry Canning Club. The poultry
club of twenty-eight members- was
organized in a poultry school held in
the county last year. When the wom
en of the club became interested in
canning this summer they decided to
change the name of their poultry club
instead of startinga new club, A can
ning demonstration given before the
club by Mrs. Karl Knaus, wife of the
county agricultural agent, was atten
ed by forty women.
Another club oddity in this county
is silo club in the southern part. Four
of the members are now digging pit
silos. 4 t
Expensive barns and equipment
are notneeded before a success may be
made of dairying, in the belief of J.
B. Fitch, associate professor dairy
husbandry in the Kansas State Agri
cultural College.
With clean utensils and appartus
for cooling milk immediately, a good
quality of milk can be produced even
though the barns . be inexpensive
points out Professor Fitch- In order
to cool milk it i3 well to use a cool
er and aerator in which the milk is
cooled and aerated by flowing in a
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